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Our hypocrisy as the French raze ‘the jungle’

23.09.09
Those who risk everything to try and make a better life need more respect and even if they are eventually deported, must be treated with compassion... more

Calais fears new 'Jungle' camp of migrants is already growing

23.09.09
Squalid camps next to the derelict Hoverport in Calais are in danger of mushrooming into a new 'Jungle' full of Britain-bound illegal migrants, it has emerged... more

Controversial history of Calais asylum seekers

22.09.09
The presence of would-be asylum seekers in Calais near the mouth of the Channel Tunnel has long been a prickly issue... more

132 children held as riot police clear Calais ‘Jungle’

22.09.09
Latest: Illegal migrants and Left-wing protesters fight police as armed officers began clearing the 'Jungle' shanty town in Calais... more

French vow to destroy 'Jungle' route to Britain

17.09.09
France's largest illegal migrant camp will be razed "by the end of next week" with inhabitants told: "You will not get to England any more via Calais."... more

Ferry gang takes £300,000 from French cash machines

14.09.09
A total of 34 Slovakians based in London were arrested in France after using Barclays bank cards to fraudulently withdraw more than £300,000 worth of euros... more

Calais people smugglers 'more likely to be British'

03.08.09
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Big rise in Calais migrants trying to break into Britain

30.07.09
The number of illegal migrants arrested in lorries heading to Britain from Calais has risen by 76 per cent this year, it has emerged... more

Brown in summit over Calais 'shanty town' migrants

03.07.09
Gordon Brown is to hold talks with the French over a huge shanty town near Calais used by migrants trying to slip into Britain... more

We should let all migrants go to Britain, says Calais mayor

23.04.09
France's immigration minister was urged to remove passport controls at Calais and bring in the army to destroy shanty towns created by migrants bound for Britain... more

Police arrest 150 UK-bound migrants in Calais

21.04.09
Doznes of UK-bound illegal migrants were arrested today by French police targeting people smugglers in Calais... more

Calais mayor blames ‘lax’ Britain for illegal migrants

20.04.09
The mayor of Calais has blamed Britain’s lax asylum system and benefits culture for “imposing” thousands of illegal migrants on her town... more

Fishermen lift Channel ferry blockade but Britons stuck in backlog

16.04.09
French fishermen said they would lift their blockade of major Channel ports - ending two days of misery for thousands of stranded Britons... more

French vow to increase blockade of ferry ports

15.04.09
Thousands of cross-Channel British holidaymakers were stranded as French fishermen continued a port blockade for a second day... more

French lift ferry block ... then change their minds

15.04.09
Cross-channel ferry passengers were facing a second successive day of travel disruption after French fishermen resumed a port blockade... more

France rejects English plans to 'recreate' Sangatte camp

18.03.09
France's immigration minister has launched a scathing attack on Britain for suggesting a new detention centre for illegal migrants in Calais... more

Instant detention centre to deter Calais migrants

17.03.09
Ministers are planning to set up a detention centre in France to hold hundreds of migrants who are gathering in Calais in a bid to come to Britain... more

Instant detention centre to deter Calais migrants

17.03.09
Ministers are planning to set up a detention centre in France to hold hundreds of migrants who are gathering in Calais in a bid to come to Britain... more

New 'Sangatte' camps to be built in Calais

12.03.09
France is to perform a U-turn by building "mini-Sangatte" welcome centres for British-bound illegal migrants massing in Calais... more

Migrants who walked into UK just by saying 'family'

12.02.09
A family of Iraqi migrants have told how saying "family" was enough to evade security in Calais and start a new life in Britain... more

France pledges to halt people smuggling into Britain

04.02.09
France has launched a onslaught against people-smugglers charging up to £3,000 a time to get illegal migrants into countries including Britain... more

Migrant is killed during mass brawl at Calais camp

08.01.09
An Afghan man was stabbed to death during a fight between rival gangs of illegal migrants heading for Britain... more

Chunnel blaze repairs will take until February

15.10.08
The fire-damaged Channel Tunnel will not be fully operational again until at least February - with the repair already escalating towards the £500million mark... more

There's a man-bird over the white cliffs of Dover

26.09.08
On a wing - and possibly a prayer - a Swiss adventurer flew into the record books with a jet-propelled crossing of the Channel... more

'We smashed our way out'

12.09.08
A lorry driver told how 32 terrified people had to smash their way out of the shuttle train's restaurant carriage when the emergency exit jammed... more

Rape? All most of us want is to get across to London

29.08.08
As a student recovers from an alleged gang rape by migrants living rough in Calais, we reveal how, six years on from Sangatte, there is no let-up in the flow of illegal immigrants.... more

Calais rapist may already be in Britain

29.08.08
Police fear the man suspected of raping a London journalism student in Calais has fled to Britain... more

London student gang-raped by Calais migrants

28.08.08
A London student was gang-raped as she investigated an illegal migrants' camp in Calais, police have said... more

More tax on drink - you'll drive us all to Calais, Darling

12.03.08
Smokers warned you, when you cheered on Labour as it forced us out of pubs: "First they come for the smokers, then they'll come for the drinkers."... more

Rodin the ladies' man

25.09.06
Auguste Rodin's ecstatic figures, on show at the Royal Academy from tomorrow, speak to everyone, stirring the loins and lifting the spirits, says Brian Sewell.... more

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